Inmaculada Mohino

• PhD in Territory, Infrastructures and Environment
• Professor (Assistant) at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Los factores de desequilibrio que han conducido a un importante proceso de despoblación en un amplio territorio español son de una extrema complejidad y devienen en una pluralidad de situaciones y problemáticas. A través del uso del método analítico del transecto espacial, se pretende establecer un marco de conocimiento de esta complejidad que inte...

This study investigates the security concerns of college students commuting in Algiers, focusing on how these interconnected issues impact their safety satisfaction. Utilizing a mixed-methods approach, the research combines quantitative data from a survey of 434 students with qualitative insights from in-depth interviews with 120 students. The find...

This study assesses student mobility’s sustainability at the University of Algiers, identifying barriers and evaluating the impact of mobility patterns and infrastructure. Through a mixed-methods approach, including surveys and interviews, the research explores the daily transportation challenges of students. Key findings highlight barriers to sust...

This study assesses the walkability of 16 pedestrian routes connecting public transport stations to the University of Algiers, focusing on safety, comfort, accessibility, connectivity, and pedestrian traffic flow. The selected routes represent key pathways frequently used by students commuting between public transport hubs and the university , chos...

The implementation of the collaborative economy in the tourist sector has led to a partial relocation of the accommodation (traditionally concentrated on hotels and resorts) through tourist homes scattered all over the city. Although some aspects of this new phenomenon (such as its impact on hotel occupation, the housing and long-time rental price)...

Mass Rapid Transport (MRT) has become pivotal in sustainable urban transportation, especially in densely populated cities like Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. Dhaka is implementing its first MRT system, which includes 17 stations, with three located in Mirpur. Mirpur, a significant area due to its diverse economic activity and population, is an i...

Major metropolitan areas were faced with a disruptive pandemic considered at times to be capable of altering the role of economies of agglomeration and spatial interaction as fundamental economic drivers. Within this context, this paper seeks to analyse the performance and resilience factors of distinctive economic activities during the pandemic an...

El artículo busca estudiar las iniciativas de innovación social que respondieron a la crisis generada por la pandemia del COVID-19. A partir de la conceptualización de la innovación social, se identifican los elementos que permiten señalar a una iniciativa como socialmente innovadora. Se caracterizan las iniciativas, se estudia su espacialidad en e...

In contemporary urban environments, over half of the population relies on walking as a primary mode of transportation, with the majority engaging in multimodal walking-combining walking with other transportation modes. Despite its growing significance, there is a notable lack of research on multimodal walking. This paper addresses this gap by exami...

Featured Application Regional planning and commuter rail development towards sustainable planning. Abstract In the extensive framework of the historiography on the relationship between railroads and cities that began in the second half of the 19th century, a new phase of thought and action emerged from the 1980s, driven by a transport-oriented dev...

Abstract. Service-Learning is an educational methodology that combines learning with community service, allowing students to work on real needs in their environment to improve it. This article describes a Service-Learning experience in higher education in the field of road safety. In this experience, students of the ‘Traffic Management’ course, fro...

En el dilatado marco de la historiografía sobre la relación entre el ferrocarril y la ciudad iniciado en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX, desde los años ochenta del siglo XX emerge una nueva fase de pensamiento y acción impulsada por el enfoque del desarrollo orientado al transporte y el modelo nodo-lugar en el seno de los paradigmas del nuevo urban...

Despite the increasing relevance of knowledge-based activities in the global economy, their spatial distribution at the intrametropolitan scale has rarely been studied. The aim of this paper is to shed light on the intrametropolitan spatial localisation of knowledge-based activities by assessing some of its main causal mechanisms, paying special at...

The present study aimed to investigate different socioeconomic factors as well as the perceptions and travel behaviors associated with urban sprawl in two cities of different sizes in Iran, as a developing country in the Middle East. Four Weighted Least Squares (WLS) regression models were developed for Hamedan and Nowshahr, as examples of large an...

World tourism dynamics are in constant change, as well as they are deeply shaping the trajectories of cities. The “call effect” for having the World Heritage status has boosted tourism in many cities. The large number of visitors and the side effects, such as the overcrowding of central spaces, are arousing the need to develop and protect heritage...

El capítulo de libro analiza y diferencia las implicaciones de la accesibilidad geográfica y la accesibilidad geométrica (space syntax) en los patrones de uso de suelo, aplicado al caso de la ciudad de Toledo.

The Olympic Games have a huge impact on the cities where they are held, both during the actual celebration of the event, and before and after it. This study presents a new approach based on spatial analysis, GIS, and data coming from Location-Based Social Networks to model the spatiotemporal dimension of impacts associated with the Rio 2016 Olympic...

Olympic Games have a huge impact on the cities where they are held, both during the actual celebration of the event and before and after it. This study presents a new approach based on spatial analysis, GIS, and data coming from Location Based Social Networks to model the spatiotemporal dimension of impacts associated with the Rio 2016 Olympic Game...

Este artículo reflexiona y centra su análisis en el desajuste entre la implantación del Estado de las Autonomías y la escasa cooperación y colaboración entre Comunidades Autónomas frente al conjunto de fenómenos urbanos y territoriales contemporáneos que desbordan claramente los límites políticos–administrativos regionales y definen a su vez nuevos...

This special issue addresses the effects of the most recent financial and economic crisis (starting in 2007) on mobility, housing and labour markets, in order to learn some lessons for the future that would enable regions to mitigate the effects of a recession and speed recovery. These empirically based papers cover various different European studi...

La legislatura 2015–2019 en Madrid y Barcelona ha estado marcada por el intento de regulación del alquiler vacacional. En Barcelona, la presión vecinal motivó la aprobación del Plan Especial Urbanístico de Alojamiento Turístico (PEUAT) en enero de 2017. En Madrid se aprobó el Plan Especial de Hospedaje (PEH) dos años después. En este caso, los agen...

p>Tradicionalmente, la forma urbana se ha usado como medio para entender los espacios urbanos. A pesar de ello, este conocimiento se ha efectuado especialmente en cascos antiguos y grandes ciudades, y el alcance de sus enfoques y métodos ha sido muy limitado en planificación y diseño. En base a estas limitaciones el artículo plantea (a) la identifi...

The Central District of Madrid, the Distrito Centro, has seen profound changes in planning and mobility in recent years. Some of the key strategies to improve the habitability of the district include pedestrianising major shopping streets such as Calle del Arenal, Calle de Fuencarral, Calle de las Huertas and Calle de Carretas, identifying a number...

The paper discusses the influence of metropolitan integration and high-speed rail (HSR) connections on urban development around HSR stations situated at networks centred on the capital. This paper analyses HSR cities located up to 1 hour from the metropolitan centres of Madrid and Paris. New findings are presented concerning the development of HSR...

Whilst contemporary functional linkages and their relation with the underlying settlement structure have been widely explored within polycentric urban configurations, little attention has been paid to their adjacent rural regions. This paper examines the spatial patterns of commuting and business travel in rural metro-adjacent regions in order to e...

Objetivo ¿Cuál es el papel de los municipios con conjunto histórico en el sistema urbano del que forman parte? ¿Qué rol tienen los municipios con conjunto histórico en las emergentes regiones urbanas multicéntricas? ¿Qué implicaciones -oportunidades y amenazas- tienen las dinámicas metropolitanas en los municipios con conjunto histórico? En base a...

Los Juegos Olímpicos (JJOO) suponen importantes inversiones por parte de las ciudades anfitrionas y se espera que impacten positivamente en la economía y la imagen turística de las ciudades y países responsables de su organización. El presente estudio analiza cuestiones menos estudiadas como son la movilidad y el uso que los residentes y visitantes...

La información geolocalizada, y en particular la que proviene de redes sociales, es una innegable y prometedora fuente de información, especialmente en el campo de la planificación (y dentro de esta, en la movilidad turística). Dada esta oportunidad, el objetivo de esta contribución es triple. En primer lugar, y desde un punto de vista metodológico...

Geolocated information, in particular that coming from big data and social networks is an undeniable and promising data source for geographical research, especially in the field of tourism mobility. The aim of this paper is twofold. First, to demonstrate the potential of photo-sharing services in the field of tourism mobility. Second, to identify a...

The inherent complexity and the deep transformations underwent by contemporary cities and territories require a new urban culture. This requires a new strategic alliance between educational system, pedagogy (teaching and learning methods) and urban practice. In this context, we suggest the use of LEGO-bricks as a powerful tool: (1) to make easier t...

Las ciudades que habitamos son cada vez más complejas haciendo necesario nuevas formas de pensar, intervenir y gestión con el fin de encarar los desafíos contemporáneos. En este sentido, el urbanismo, y especialmente su enseñanza, tiene un papel fundamental ya que implica una generación y transmisión de conocimiento sobre la ciudad. Se propone el u...

The hereby presented activity consisted in an academically challenging, classroom-based unit in which high-school and undergraduate students developed a hypothetical empty area of a city. As the planning process engages with sophisticated concepts and digital tools, we suggest to simplify its teaching by introducing Lego Blocks. Another advantage o...

The hereby presented activity consisted in an academically challenging, classroom-based unit in which high-school and undergraduate students developed a hypothetical empty area of a city. As the planning process engages with sophisticated concepts and digital tools, we suggest to simplify its teaching by introducing Lego Blocks. Another advantage o...

Motivated by the multiple transformations rural regions have witnessed in recent years, this paper aims to capture three key urban processes taking place within these territories (facilitated, among others, by the improvements in their transport networks). First, the extension of potential catchment areas and internal interconnection levels (in con...

This paper examines the spatial distribution of work related relationships in recently re-organized rural metro adjacent regions in order to understand their urban structure. Particularly, this research explores different travel purposes (commuting and business) and education levels (average working population and highly skilled professionals) in t...

This paper describes changing commuting patterns within rural regions gradually integrated into metropolitan dynamics and recently reconfigured by state rescaling processes. It focuses on Castilla-La Mancha (Spain), a rural region under Madrilenian influence, between 1981 and 2011. The empirical results show that these regions are (1) becoming hybr...

The original goal of high-speed rail (HSR) was to link large metropolitan regions 400– 600 km apart. Recently, however, intermediate 'ex-metropolitan' HSR stations have also been created in suburban areas/cities within metropolitan regions (up to 100 km from the metropolitan centre). This study takes a close look at nine such 'ex-metropolitan' stat...

----------------------------------------------------------------- Summary ----------------------------------------------------------------- During the last decades, traditional monocentric metropolitan systems are evolving to polycentric ones, characterized by externalities shared among a collection of close-by and linked cities (either with or wit...

This book explores the environmental, economic and social effects of developing a high speed rail (HSR) system, drawing on new evaluations of the proposed system as well as lessons from international experience. Through these accumulated lessons from past HSR system development around the world, leading experts present a diverse set of perspectives...

Tradicionalmente el análisis e intervención efectuada sobre las ciudades históricas, los centros históricos y los conjuntos históricos se ha basado en un “enfoque desde dentro”, tratándose como piezas aisladas y desvinculadas de la dinámica de la ciudad y sobre todo del sistema urbano. La transformación de los sistemas urbanos a lo largo del tiempo...

The case of Madrid is used as empirical focus to propose a new classification of the metropolitan region urban medium-sized or secondary city system. Based on a methodology that integrates the morphological (size, location and socioeconomic history) and the functional dimensions (centrality index, advanced producer services (APS) concentration and...

The original goal of high-speed rail (HSR) was to link large metropolitan regions 400–600 km apart. Recently, however, intermediate ‘ex-metropolitan’ HSR stations have also been created in suburban areas/cities within metropolitan regions (up to 100 km from the metropolitan centre). This study takes a close look at nine such ‘ex-metropolitan’ stati...

La evolución de los sistemas urbanos de unos modelos monocéntricos hacia otros más policénticos y la emergencia de centralidades político-administrativas en áreas distantes pertenecientes a Regiones Metropolitanas Multicéntricas, así como la mejora de las infraestructuras de transporte son factores que han jugado un papel clave en la creciente comp...

The original goal of high-speed rail (HSR) was to link large metropolitan regions 400–600 km apart. Recently, however, intermediate ‘ex-metropolitan’ HSR stations have also been created in suburban areas/cities within metropolitan regions (up to 100 km from the metropolitan centre). This study takes a close look at nine such ‘ex-metropolitan’ stati...

The article explores the evolution of urban policies in relation to three questions: political agenda, driving scales -national, regional, local- and public/pricate character. The analysis is undertaken on several Madrid urban polycentric system of medium-sized/intermediary cities classified as: historic-administrative, historic-economic and metrop...

The most meaningful feature of the teaching experience of the School of Civil Engineering (of the Castilla La Mancha University) is the implementation, since its origins in 1998, of an innovative methodology: the ‘Problem Based Learning’. The paper presented here tries to show the results obtained by the development of an activity as part of one o...

1. EL PATRIMONIO DE LA INGENIERÍA Y LAS INFRAESTRUCTURAS LINEALES HISTÓRICAS La extensión de la idea de patrimonio a la escala territorial ha propiciado una reflexión de la que derivan nuevos modos de valoración de las antiguas obras públicas. Por una parte, y a la vez que la Arqueología Industrial ha insistido sobre la necesidad de acometer el aná...

La comunicación sintetiza los resultados del proyecto de fin de carrera “Recuperación del Itinerario Histórico de Despeñaperros”, presentado en la ETS de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha en el curso 2008/09. El principal objetivo del proyecto es la recuperación y puesta en valor del itinerario históri...